Destination retail

The Garsten Retail Center gained final approval from the Riverhead Planning Board on Aug. 17, 2017. The town board approved an excavation permit last month, providing for the removal of 8,156 cubic yards of soil

Payless ShoeSource is the latest Route 58 retailer liquidating its inventory in advance of closing down. The international chain is closing all of its 2,300 North America stores.

An Ashley Homestore is moving into the store being vacated by Modell's Sporting Goods in Riverhead Centre. The national furniture retail store will take occupancy Feb. 1, according to the center's leasing agent.

Liquidators have begun working to sell off the stock at the Riverhead Kmart store, which is slated to close its doors Nov. 25. Sixty-five people will be laid off, according to a company filing with the state labor department.

The approximately 5,000-square-foot currently vacant storefront would accommodate a restaurant use with 120 to 160 seats, according to the town planning department. A town board special permit would be required, because the site, developed prior to the master plan rezoning, is located in the Destination Retail zoning district, where restaurants are not permitted.

Target is marketing a 1.5 acre portion of its site as an "outlot" fronting Route 58 —asking price: $2 million — for a proposed 8,900-square-foot, 250-seat restaurant.